I'm officially employed

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Today, everything happened at the same time, pretty much.

A little before 11, DS2 announced that he wanted to put his poopy in the potty. Those of you who have little ones understand how momentous this type of announcement is. Unfortunately, he had already put it in his diaper, which I didn't realize until I was taking it off of him so he could sit on the potty! That was OK, except that while I was cleaning him up, the phone rang, and ...

It was my new boss! We had already re-scheduled the phone meeting for 11. EEK! I'm with a poopy-bottomed toddler and trying to juggle the phone... I just told him about it immediatel (in the most general terms... 'I'm dealing with potty issues"... ) he has young kids too and so he does sympathize. Plus, he knows i'm working from home and this is my environment. We spent a few minutes waiting for an email to get to me, then he rang off to set up the conference call. Within about 3 minutes of that call coming in, the doorbell rang, and...

It was the contractor! I had to leave him in my Mom's capable hands while I escaped to the patio (about 68 degrees, sunny, beautiful breeze, birds singing) and we reviewed our project outline document for about a half-hour. DS2 could not shut up, he was so excited about the contractor coming over, so I just had to run away, and since the contractor was working upstairs, I had to go somewhere... out the door!

By the time I got off the phone, I should've been leaving to get DD from school, but I spent about 10 minutes with the contractor answering some of his questions, and then dashed to get DD ... only 15 minutes late, and no one seemed upset by it, least of all her. DS2 accompanied me on both trips today, still in his pj's, and happy to just sit in the car. This morning he was ticked he couldn't get out and play, but I can't let him out if he has no shoes on! This afternoon, he was cool with it, he just likes either being with me or riding in the car, or both!

Now I'm going to have to get to work, and so I don't expect to be around here as much as I have been recently. But who knows, I may be just the same, or even more, if I feel the need to decompress! I'm psyched about this job starting, though.

Time to get to it!